Source: Chelsea Dinterman, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 4/21/22


As the 2022 growing season nears, rising fertilizer prices have left many farmers rethinking their application strategies. “In the past when nitrogen was a little less expensive, growers were often tempted to just add more untreated nitrogen as an insurance policy on yield,” says Tim Laatsch, director of agronomy for Koch Agronomic Services. “This year, the economics simply do not support that decision, so I think a lot of growers are going to operate more toward that threshold of right rate.”

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